Jason Isbell Quotes
I'm not a big AA guy, but I'll go every once in a while. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it's really true.

Quotes to Explore
-
Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
-
When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
-
Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
-
America is not the center of the universe.
-
I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
-
I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
-
We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
-
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
-
It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.
-
The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.
-
I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world.
-
I think I surprise some people because a lot of the time, I roll out of bed and go to school, and it's like I don't wear anything that interesting sometimes.
-
On occasion, I used to give presents to the kings, besides the hire that I gave to to their sons who accompany me; and nevertheless, they seized me with my companions.
-
When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.
-
I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
-
I think there's a lot of deep-rooted history in England with racing. Lots of Formula One teams are based there. Formula One is obviously a huge sport over in England and Europe.
-
I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
-
I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
-
I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.
-
As a child you received messages from your family to keep your mouth shut and remain invisible. You also learned to become invisible in order to protect yourself. You no longer need to be invisible to survive. If people do not notice you, they may not abuse you, but they also will not love you or attend to your needs. Make yourself and your needs known.
-
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
-
People don't believe in positive changes anymore.
-
I'm not a big AA guy, but I'll go every once in a while. They do tell you that going out and helping other people really helps you a lot. It seems like a simple thing to say, but it's really true.